Wigan RL didn't get the ground. Whelan and Latins did.

Looking at various points in this thread

Our 2020's side. Let's win a trophy first, before we get too tumescent. We haven't won a big one (CC/GF) , for over 6 years. I've seen many a false dawn, here.

Wigan's dominance. Couldn't give a stiff one. It finished 20 years ago. Ancient history. They've won plenty since, but so have Bradford, Saints and Leeds.

Sky deal.
The deal MUST be right for both parties.
I assume our game is cash strapped, so we need a deal that benefits us. However, Sky are haemorrhaging their portfolio, in the last few years. They've lost
Football Champions League, FA Cup to BT Sports, as well as BT getting an increased amount of Prem games. Spanish football.
Cricket Ashes tours, as well as other International games. Add to this, BBC coverage starting again.
Boxing Various fighters now appearing on BT sports, that would've been on Sky
R.U. Premiership games, and Heineken Cup.
Tennis US Open and various tour events
Golf Rumoured to be losing the PGA tour events (I. E 50% of the channel's output)

The only things they seem to [imajor on[/i are Prem League football, darts, F1 and US sports. We need a good bargainer, when the contract is up for renewal. Interesting times ahead for our sport.

I hope this post is brought up in 12 months in a positive light.

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The thing I took from that report is the BBC have been asking for the final to be moved for 5 years. Soon as they remove the incompetence that is the RFL the better.

Is that moving the date of the final, or the time?

I think I'm moving the decade to the 2030s!

We might have the "arrogant fans that the rest of the league loves to hate" and "club spent too much and overextended itself" parts in common, just without the collection of trophies and world class rugby on display.

Seven?

7...people from Widnes have 7 fingers.

They were all great players but had they played for a variety of clubs we would have had a more vibrant competition. When Wigan poached Andy Gregory from Wire I still recall the report by The Guardian RL correspondent at the time when he stated [iWhat do Wigan want with Gregory as they already have Shaun Edwards? [/i In the 1980s there was still a good deal of RL on terrestrial TV which also helped to put Wigan and their players in front of a wider audience. In the long run the most important factor in any sport is competition, and dominance by anyone destroys that. Sally appears to have a passing interest in NFL and they go to great lengths with 'the draft' to even up the teams every year. I believe that most US sports still 'pool' revenue and divide most of it up evenly between the teams. That's another policy to avoid domination by one side.

Don’t underestimate the role of “Superstars “ in raising the profile!